A developer argues that isolated work creates hidden decisions that trap future changes in one person's head. Teams that share understanding and ownership build software that's easier to maintain and scale.
There is so much need for collaboration and alignment to effectively deliver solutions that can scale long-term. Just one person working in isolation and making decisions will cause a lot more harm than actually help. And the reason is that every piece of code we create, someone needs to maintain it. If one person is just making isolated decisions, nobody else will know what those decisions actually were. All of the future changes would depend just on that person. The goal is to create software that is easy to maintain and adjust based on future needs. And you can only do that with great minds that are working together. That's why I like to say software development is a team sport and great teams build great software.
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